The fundamental question of Metaphysics is “What is reality?” And the most fundamental question about this fundamental question is “Can we answer this question?” Full realists think we can. They are convinced that the world is independent of our minds and that we can know it as it is independently of us. Half realists think that the world is independent of us (onto-logical realism), but that we cannot know it as it is independently of our minds (epistemological anti-realism). Full anti-realis..
Two of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in t...
The paper can be logically divided into two parts. In the first part I distinguish two kinds of meta...
The object of realist metaphysics is generally thought to be to describe the structure of the world ...
The fundamental question of Metaphysics is “What is reality?” And the most fundamental question abou...
According to metaphysical realism, we would have to compare our thought with mind-independent realit...
This essay focuses on realism in ontology and on the problem of defining reality. According to the d...
Metaphysics has had a long history of debate over its viability, and substantivity. This thesis expl...
This essay focuses on realism in ontology and on the problem of defining reality. According to the d...
Metaphysics is now a respectable discipline within analytic philosophy: metaphysical realists are pr...
Chakravartty (2007) and others have pressed that the defender of scientific realism needs to supply ...
The perennial nature of some of philosophy’s deepest problems is a puzzle. Here, one problem, the re...
This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphy...
This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphy...
In Morality & Mathematics, Justin Clarke-Doane argues that it is hard to imagine being "a realist ab...
‘Logical Realism’ is taken to mean many different things. I argue that if reality has a privileged s...
Two of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in t...
The paper can be logically divided into two parts. In the first part I distinguish two kinds of meta...
The object of realist metaphysics is generally thought to be to describe the structure of the world ...
The fundamental question of Metaphysics is “What is reality?” And the most fundamental question abou...
According to metaphysical realism, we would have to compare our thought with mind-independent realit...
This essay focuses on realism in ontology and on the problem of defining reality. According to the d...
Metaphysics has had a long history of debate over its viability, and substantivity. This thesis expl...
This essay focuses on realism in ontology and on the problem of defining reality. According to the d...
Metaphysics is now a respectable discipline within analytic philosophy: metaphysical realists are pr...
Chakravartty (2007) and others have pressed that the defender of scientific realism needs to supply ...
The perennial nature of some of philosophy’s deepest problems is a puzzle. Here, one problem, the re...
This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphy...
This paper is an attempt to convince anti-realists that their correct intuitions against the metaphy...
In Morality & Mathematics, Justin Clarke-Doane argues that it is hard to imagine being "a realist ab...
‘Logical Realism’ is taken to mean many different things. I argue that if reality has a privileged s...
Two of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in t...
The paper can be logically divided into two parts. In the first part I distinguish two kinds of meta...
The object of realist metaphysics is generally thought to be to describe the structure of the world ...